WK#61

Week 12 in Mejillones!!!!!!!! Milagros y pruebas!

Hola!!!!

Hey Hey, the past week was great! Lots of stuff happened!! Basically our friend Yisena was baptized yesterday!!!! It was great!!! Everyone showed up! Even their dog!!! hahaha!! Next her mom and her boyfriend, they just need to get married! Other than that we received transfers!!! Elder Clark left to Calama and I'll be staying in Mejillones! My new companion will be a newbie. This transfer I'll be training as district leader in Mejillones! Its gonna be fun y vamos a bautizar!!!! I'm super excited and I know we are going to see a lot of success! My last district leader taught me a lot of things and I just hope I'll be able to help other missionaries see the same success in there missions as I have. Well next week you'll be getting some pictures of my new comp. and hopefully another baptism picture too! I hope everyone is well and that you'll enjoy your week!

 Elder Grant Arthur Eagar

¡HAY BAUTISMO!

Week #59 and #60

Week 10 and 11 in Mejillones!

HOLA!!!!

Well its been a couple weeks since I´ve sent out a big one but allot has happened the last two weeks!!! First off, new years was great! we had a lot of fun us 4 Elder´s in Mejillones! Besides that I don't remember much of what happened two weeks ago! But this past week was great! Last Monday we had an ´Olympics´ with President and his family since our zone had the most baptisms in December!! (22!) Then, once a month, our president of our mission has a meeting with his leaders in the mission. This past one I was invited to it and it was quite awesome!! I got to see Elder Montgomery and Sheridan! (The two elders I trained!) Those guys are such studs. With that, it makes me a little anxious for transfers which will happen this Friday! Other than that this past week was full of a bunch of fun stuff and exciting moments! With so many, I just want to share one real quick!

So we have a family that we´ve been teaching now for several weeks. There names are Miguel, Teresa, and her daughter Yiseña. They are a really awesome family from Peru that have been fun to teach. At the beginning when we first started teaching Teresa she was a little stiff, trying to share stuff and teach was a little difficult and actually one of my companions said we should just move on to other investigators since she wasn't progressing as fast. I was like, "nah" there's hope. And this past Sunday her and her family came to church!! And her "pareja", (boyfriend, who is miguel) had the ganas to get up during fast and testimony and share what he had felt as we have been teaching him!!!! It was just spectacular to have that happen and see how the Atonement of Jesus Christ is working in this man, and for him to share his feelings about repentance! It truly is a blessing to help people and teach them about repentance as a missionary. To see lives changed and my own, is something I cant even describe. And when the people make these changes and except Christ in there lives, the next step is baptism. Something that I love sharing, teaching, preaching, and doing! All I have is these next 10 months to do it and that ain´t much time. Pero hay que aprovechar el tiempo!!!! Hope you all have a good week and remember the tender mercies of the Lord! Con Amor,

 Élder Grant Arthur Eagar

¡HAY BAUTISMO!

"Without the Redeemer, [our] inherent hope and joy evaporate, and repentance becomes simply miserable behavior modification. But by exercising faith in Him, we become converted to His ability and willingness to forgive sin."

"The reach of the Savior’s Atonement is infinite in breadth and depth, for you and for me. But it will never be imposed on us. … Repentance is a choice."

—Dale G. Renlund

Wk #58

Week 9 in Mejillones!!!

First off, I hope everyone had a good Christmas! I did, it was quite an interesting week! It was actually pretty difficult in the terms of doing missionary work! A lot of people have started heading out for vacations and with the holidays it can be real tuff! But its all good and there's still a ton of stuff to do! But Friday was quite fun while we had a Christmas devotional with the mission president and his family! It was real good plus we had ice-cream and a movie!!!!! We saw The Croods! It was fun to watch! Our baptism for this week fell through, some stuff happened in her family and it just didn't go through... but everything is still good! Other than that Skyping was great yesterday!! Thank you to those that we´re there and it was wonderful to talk to you!!!

Something I want to share real quick is something that our mission president shared with us on Friday. Some of what he was talking about is that in life we make new beginnings. We start something new like leaving to serve on a mission, or making the choice to be baptized, getting married, big choices like that. Times when we make crucial changes in our lives for the better. And that afterwards when everything is said and done, we cant turn back. We cant go back to what we used to be. Everything that we have accomplished up to this moment can´t be in vain. So this being the last week of 2016, I want to invite everyone to look back on what you´ve done the past year. See what changes have happened and see what needs to improve. In life we make mistakes, but when we choose to follow Christ, and use His atonement. We can make changes and become better, and once we do that, we cant look back. We got to keep going and pushing forward so we don't fall back again. Les espero una semana buena con mucho amor y cariño!!

 Elder Grant Arthur Eagar

¡HAY BAUTISMO!

Wk#57

Hey Hey!!!!

Just came off a good week here in Mejillones! Lots of work to do and lots of souls to save!!!! We´ve been seeing a lot of success here the past few weeks! I think I might say that every week but its true!! The Lord gives us many blessings and I have seen many here during my time! I don't have much to say for this week just that I´m excited for this weekend! We´ll be having a Christmas conference Friday, a baptism Saturday, and Sunday is Christmas with a Skype call!!!!!! Yep we got a lot coming up this week and its gonna be fun! It´s been great these past week with all the Christmas feel in the air but it really has given time to reflect on Jesus Christ and His birth. Also on his life and the Godly example He has given us. I know He lives and this is His church. I hope you all enjoy this next week and can always remember Christ.

Con Amor,

Elder Grant Arthur Eagar

¡HAY BAUTISMO!

Elder Recca dressed as santa for a primary activity!!!!!

I got glasses now..... but they help alot!!!!!

Wk#56

Week 7 in Mejillones!!!!!!

Buenas!!!!

Well another week in the deserts of Chile has come to an end! Last week went pretty well! I picked up my new companion Elder Clark!!! He´s a great guy from non other than......Utah!!!! Yep, what the members down here call, ¨La Fabrica¨  (The Factory)!!!!! But he´s a great Elder with just about 5 months in the mission. He was actually companions in the MTC with Elder Montgomery who I trained so it´s kind of fun...tell stories and share stuff like that. Well other than that we´ve been working alot here to find some more people to teach. But in just the past week we´ve found about almost 20 new people which has been quite a blessing!!!! Here in Chile the weather is getting warmer so I hope everyone back home is enjoying a nice cool winter! Other than that, not much happened last week but in my link theres some good fotos from the Branch Christmas party that we were in charge off!!!! Hope you all are well and enjoying the Christmas season!!!!

 Elder Grant Arthur Eagar

¡HAY BAUTISMO!

"Contrary to the world’s secular teaching, the scriptures teach us that we do have agency, and our righteous exercise of agency always makes a difference in the opportunities we have and our ability to act upon them and progress eternally."

—Robert D. Hales

Wk #55

Week 6 in Mejillones!!!!!

This past week was just spectacular!!!!!!! We had a lot of success in Mejillones and we saw the blessings of our hard work!!!! Saturday we had the baptism of 5 of our investigators!!!!!!! Then sunday another one got baptized!!!! All in all it was just a great weekend!!!!! Elder Sheridan and I really have seen many miracles and blessings during our time here in Mejillones! But this transfer just ended and Elder Sheridan will be leaving.... he´s going to Calama to be a district leader and a trainer!!!!! Im real excited for him and I know he has a good future ahead of him in the mission!! My new companion will be Elder Clark!!!! I new him in Arica and we should have a fun time ahead of us!!!!! I dont have much time to write this week since our computer time has been shortened to an hour now but till next week!!

--  Elder Grant Arthur Eagar

¡HAY BAUTISMO!

Week #54

Week 5 in Mejillones!!!!!

Hola mis queridos!! 

This past week we had alot of success here in Mejillones!! This place is the promised land!!!! This past week we had the baptism of Brayan and Yamileth!!!! It was super awesome!!!! This week her brother and mom will be getting baptized too!!! We´re really excited for them!!! We have really seen alot of blessings here because of our faith and obedience I believe. 

I don't have much time today but I want to tell a cool story before I go! The past week we found a cool family that at first we really didn't know what would happen with them or if they were really interested. Well Sunday morning when we went to look for them for church and when we asked them if they wanted to go, they were like ¨yeah, we´ll go to church with you¨!!!! And they did!!!!! So after church we stopped by there house and asked them if they want to get baptized and they said yes!!! So today we´re gonna stop by and see if they want to do it this saturday!!!! They´re very special and I feel that they are ¨escogido del Señor¨!! 

Well we have alot of work ahead of us this week because this Friday we´ll know if someone will go, yes transfers are coming..... Love you all and hope you have a very good week!!

 Elder Grant Arthur Eagar

¡HAY BAUTISMO!

P-Day BBQ on the Beach!